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07ISLAMABAD1466
2007-04-03 14:35:00
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Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
CHIEF JUSTICE UPDATE: MINOR PROTESTS THROUGHOUT
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UNCLAS ISLAMABAD 001466
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SENSITIVE
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL PK
SUBJECT: CHIEF JUSTICE UPDATE: MINOR PROTESTS THROUGHOUT
PAKISTAN
REF: ISLAMABAD 01456
(SBU) The Supreme Judicial Council deciding the fate of
"non-functional" Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry met on April
3 and then adjourned until April 13. EMBASSY locally engaged
staff reported that up to 1,500 protesters, mostly lawyers
and political party activists, turned out on Islamabad's
Constitution Avenue to protest the government's action
against the Chief Justice. In Lahore, close to 1,500 Jama'at
Islami party members marched peacefully down the mall to the
Punjab High Court, where party leaders Liaqat Baloch and
Hafiz Salman Butt gave speeches. Protests were smaller in
Peshawar (150-200 people),Karachi (400-500 people),and
Quetta (200-300 people). Today's protests did not dominate
the morning's papers or the day's TV coverage in Pakistan;
news of tribes declaring "jihad" against Uzbeks in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Prime Minister Aziz'
participation in the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation Summit in Delhi garnered equal or more attention.
BODDE
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL PK
SUBJECT: CHIEF JUSTICE UPDATE: MINOR PROTESTS THROUGHOUT
PAKISTAN
REF: ISLAMABAD 01456
(SBU) The Supreme Judicial Council deciding the fate of
"non-functional" Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry met on April
3 and then adjourned until April 13. EMBASSY locally engaged
staff reported that up to 1,500 protesters, mostly lawyers
and political party activists, turned out on Islamabad's
Constitution Avenue to protest the government's action
against the Chief Justice. In Lahore, close to 1,500 Jama'at
Islami party members marched peacefully down the mall to the
Punjab High Court, where party leaders Liaqat Baloch and
Hafiz Salman Butt gave speeches. Protests were smaller in
Peshawar (150-200 people),Karachi (400-500 people),and
Quetta (200-300 people). Today's protests did not dominate
the morning's papers or the day's TV coverage in Pakistan;
news of tribes declaring "jihad" against Uzbeks in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Prime Minister Aziz'
participation in the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation Summit in Delhi garnered equal or more attention.
BODDE